Urn-shaped soft pink flowers; IV-V/VI; foliage clear blue-grey, linear-lance-shaped leaves, 2–3 cm long, with silvery hues. Differs from ‘Blue Ice’ in much more prominent blue-grey foliage, rather than blue-green. Sport on ‘Blue Ice, discovered by Marcel Brand at Boskoop, Netherlands, in 2006; in 2010, patented under United States PP22004.
Heathers
‘Golden Jubilee’
White flowers, corolla 5–6mm long, to 2mm across, ovoid; calyx 3–4mm; XII-IV; foliage “Golden”; Selected seedling from ‘Golden Lady’, propagated from an individual plant growing in the garden of Susie and Alan Kay, Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland.
Another plant in Seller’s mother’s garden was 1m tall unpruned after 29 years.
Named to mark the Golden Jubilee of The Heather Society in 2013.
® E.2013:02 registered on 6 September 2013 by B. Sellers, London.
‘Rieke’
Corolla lavender (H3); VI-X; foliage mid-green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 2 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2005 between unnamed seedlings, selected in 2010. More floriferous than ‘Vanessa’.
® D.2013:04 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
‘Antonia’
Corolla ruby (H5); VI-X; foliage mid-green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 2 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2005 between unnamed seedlings, selected in 2010. More floriferous than ‘Amelie’.
® D.2013:03 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
‘Angelina’
Corolla ruby (H5); VI-X; foliage mid-green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 2 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2005 between unnamed seedlings, selected in 2010. More floriferous than ‘Amelie’.
® D.2013:02 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
‘Rosella’
Corolla shell-pink (H16) (without blue); VI-X; foliage mid-green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 2 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2005 between unnamed seedlings, selected in 2010.
® D.2013:01 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
‘Mary Lu’
♤ Budbloomer, big buds grade 7, white RHS 155C; VII-XI; foliage vivacious light green; habit upright, bushy; height 25–30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Girls Name.
Breeded by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany) K 07-34-11 EU plant breeders rights given on 19.09.2016
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2007 between unnamed seedlings, (pollen parent 06-85-1, seed parent 06-85-2), selected in 2008. Has bigger buds than ‘Madonna’ and is more resistant against fungi.
® C.2013:06 registered on 8 December 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 01.07.2013 CPVO 5.2013 15/10/2013
Kurt Kramer EU plant breeders rights given on 19.09.2016 CPVO 6.2016 15/12/2016
‘Lisbeth’
♤ Bud-flowering; purple red; VIII-X; foliage green–gray; habit upright; height 50cm; spread 50cm after 3 years (not pruned). Shows colour as early as mid-August.
Deliberately raised from two unnamed seedlings, cross made by J. van Leuven in August 2010; selected in August 2011; to be released in 2015.
® C.2013:04 registered on 25 October 2013 by J. van Leuven, Johannes, Geldern-Lüllingen, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 14.11.2013. CPVO 1.2014 15/02/2014
Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 08.06.2015. CPVO 4.2015 15/08/2015
‘Lilli’
♤ Bud-flowering; buds H5 (ruby), 5mm long, to 2mm diameter; VIII-IX; foliage dark green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 3 years (pruned). Buds show colour three weeks earlier than ‘Athene’ or ‘Amethyst’.
Sport on ‘Loki’, found by J. van Leuven, Geldern-Lüllingen, in autumn 2007.
® C.2011:04 registered on 16 January 2011 by K. Kramer, Edewecht, Germany
Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, D-26188 Edewecht, Germany, on 17.02.2011. CPVO 3.2011 15/06/2011
Kurt Kramer plant breeders rights given on 22.10.2012. CPVO 6.2012 17/12/2012
‘Katja’
♤ Bud-flowering(Knospenblüher), crimson(H13), buds to 5mm long, 2mm across;calyx rose-pink(H7); IX-XII; foliage: dark green, with mid-green new growth; habit: to 30cm×25cm after 3years (pruned). Buds redder than those of ‘Rosita’.
Origins: a sport on ‘Rosita’, found in autumn 2010, byArmin Klose, Sandkrug-Hatten, Germany.
® C.2013:01 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
Description in Supplement XIV (2014), Heathers 11: 68 is erroneous: the description above is correct.
Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany, on 01.07.2013.
CPVO 5.2013 15/10/2013
Kurt Kramer plant breeders rights given on 08.06.2015.
CPVO 4.2015 15/08/2015